I am the Golden Trophy for Architecture

GDEA Awards Submission Form

My Role

Lead designer for an awards submission site for an architectural firm

Problems to solve

The site to submit an application for the Gensler Design Excellence Awards was so cumbersome & unintuitive, that filling out the forms was often delegated to a group of employees, knowledge managers, who knew the back-end workings of the system. Therefore, the ask was to create a system so easy and intuitive to use that it significantly reduced the workload of those who needed to trouble-shoot the problems during the submission period.

Approach

Utilize best practices in form design, leverage the data that we already had in our internal systems to auto-populate known fields, and allow the seamless upload of files.